Tag: International Arthouse

Guest post by Brittany D. Friesner, Associate Director of Indiana University Cinema. On Tuesday, March 27, 2018, IU Cinema will commemorate the fifth annual National Evening of Science on Screen® with a 7:00 p.m. screening of the new documentary Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story. IU Cinema joins 28 independent theaters in 25 states as part… Read more »

On Tuesday, March 27 the Indiana University Cinema will be screening the documentary Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story as a part of the International Arthouse Series and this year’s Science on Screen series. Hedy Lamarr was a fascinating and incredibly influential woman in America, and not just because she was an actress of the Classical Hollywood period. In… Read more »

Guest post by Sylvia Martinez. The 2018 Latino Film Festival is about a week away! Planning for the festival began in the summer of 2017. With the help of Latino Studies faculty and graduate students, we settled on a theme and list of potential films by early September. This year’s theme, “Latinx Spaces,” seeks to… Read more »

Guest post by Elisa Räsänen. Are Nordic people really happy? Yes, they are, at least according to the most recent World Happiness Report (2017), in which Norway was declared the happiest country in the world, with Denmark, Iceland and Finland making it into the top 5. We decided to explore this “happiness,” which is arguably a… Read more »

Guest post by Dr. Alberto Varon. The Latino Film Festival sponsored by the Latino Studies Program has become a premier programming event for the IU and Bloomington communities since 2012. As in previous years, the two-day event will convene local scholars and film directors on the Bloomington campus to showcase and discuss recent trends in… Read more »

Below, students of journalism, international studies and religious studies in Media School Professor of Practice Elaine Monaghan’s “Covering Ireland” reporting class write collaboratively about a showing of Andrei Tarkovsky’s The Sacrifice, a film packed with allegories, religious imagery and thoughts about death, fear, hope and materialism. As you will read, the student reporters found an… Read more »

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